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From the Office of Public Relations For Release in AFTERNOON Massachusetts Institute of rechnology Papers Cambridge 39, Mass. THURSDAY, JUNE 12, 1958

NOTE TO EDITORS: Names of those receiving Air Force and Army commissions at Commissioning Exercises Thursday morning are attached; home addresses are not available. Photographs of the principals in the Commissioning Exercises may be made at 10:15 Thursday morning in the "Green Room" of Kresge Auditorium.

One hundred and thirty-one science, engineering and management graduates of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology joined the ranks of United States Army and Air Force officers at commissioning ceremonies this morning (Thursday). Most of them received their Army orAir Force reserve commissions during this morning's ceremonies; 21 were cited for commissioas which they will receive later in the summer, after attending training camps or the M.I.T. Summer Session. All will enter active duty with the armed forces during the next twelve months. Major General James McCormack, Jr., Vice Fresident of M.I.T. presided at the exercises, Speakers were Major General Walter C. Sweeney, Jr., Commanding General. Eighth Air Force, Strategic Air Command, representing the Air Force; Rear Admiral William E. Howard, Jr., Commander, Boston Naval Shipyard, representing the Navy; and Brigadier General Alden K. Sibley, Division Engineer for the New England Division, Corps of Engineers, representing the Army. General Sweeney and General Sibley presented commissions to the Air Force and Army officers, respectively, and the oath of office was administered by Colonel Harmon Lampley, Jr., Professor of Air Science at M.I.T. Other participants in the ceremonies, held at 10:30 in Kresge Auditorium, were Rabbi Herman Pollack and the Rev. Robert C. Holtzapple, Jr., religious counselors at M.I.T. Music was provided by the Needham High School Band. The new officers include Richard and Michael Margiis Gottlieb, twins from Larch- mont,New York, among 22 ranked as distinguished military graduates. Today's commissioning exercises opened the official commencement activities of M.I.T.'s Clkss of 1958. Baccalaureate services will be held this afternoon, and graduation exercises tomorrow (Friday) morning, followed by a luncheon and reception for the graduates and their parents.

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The United States Army

CADETS RECEIVING COMMISSIONS IN THE UNITED STATES ARMY RESERVE, JUNE 12, 1958

CORPS OF ENGINEERS ORDNANCE CORPS Alton Joseph Frabetti, Jr.* Ronald George Hadge Herbert Edward Calves, Jr. Karl King Balbach Jens Lewis Hanson Richard Paul File Stanley Maynard Blackmer Henry Edmund Hartman* Robert Alan Goldberg Frederick Thomas Bond, Jr.* Robert William Hausslein Jay Curtis Hammerness John Benedict Forrest, Jr. Joel Moses Klein Alan Carter Hurkamp George Henry Haines, Jr. Larry Wayne Lassinger William Cypras Kazokas, Jr.* Thomas Alfred Knight Gregory Josph Lazarc ik Michael David Kenyon* Robert Stephen Kolk Vito Paul Maglione John Herbert Nebiker Martin Louis Levin James Colinan Pearson Allen Robert Philippe Sarsfield Sherman McNulty Paul Henry Rothschild Charles Jay Harry LeRoy Ross, Jr. Moog Gerald Kent Saul Sass Hans George Morgenstern Carl Alfred Schwartz Andrew Raymond Roger Myles Rogers Howard Silverman Joel Alfred Shulman Leonard Joseph Timms, r * Allan Jay Rosenberg Alexander Francis Sigethy, Jr. Theodore Michael Turk Henry Edward Salzhauer* Richard Hersey Wick Ronald Ward Tweedie Edgar Morris Scattergood, III Walter Wesley Wiechmann Herbert Allen Schnitzer Kai Wing Young Louis Buck Seigle Alan Donald Storms Glenn Preston Strehle Gustav Albert Swanson QUARTERMASTER CORPS SIGNAL CORPS Charles Finley Talbot, Jr. Harvey Paul Utech* Gary Lynn Blakely Frank Amoroso William Louis Veeck, III Walter Charles Braun, III William Edmund Bicknell* Karl Moritz Walterskirchen Dale Norman Dukes* Robert John Buchler John Edward Woodilla, Jr. Michael Abraham Falk Paul Frederick Doering Michael Marglis Gottlieb* William Francis Duffy Terry Sears Hoyt Edward Arthur Felker CHEMICAL CORPS Arnold Edwin Jacobson Richard Steven Glantz Arthur Harry Aronson Herbert Irving Kavet Richard Marglis Gottlieb* Kenneth Joseph Auer James Miller Kennedy, Jr.* Robert Joseph Hecht * James Benenson, Jr. * Thomas John McCarthy Lee Quentin Niemela David Joseph Bentley, Jr. Samuel Alan Oolie Ronald Burdette Weimer Albert Pierre Chadourne, Jr. Paul Britton Repetto Howard Paul Zeiger Harold Gerard Erichs * Merrill Sidman

CADETS RECEIVING COMMISSIONS IN THE UNITED STATES ARMY RESERVE UPON COMPLETION OF SUMMER CAMP, 1958, OR UPON GRADUATION IN SEPTEMBER

CORPS OF ENGINEERS' Alvin William Drake CHEMICAL CORPS David Allen Berg John Anthony Murphy William Edmund Banker Mark William Tenney Robert Elijah Jordan, III ORDNANCE CORPS Kenneth Robert Nickerson* SIGNAL CORPS Edgar Hiel Bristol, 11 QUARTERMASTER CORPS Joseph Morris Aein Harvey Morton Fishman Gerald William Alport* Edward Joseph Goldman Stephanos Straty Hadjiyannis James Woodworth Conley Frank George Tahmoush George Henry Schade, Jr. *Distinguished Military Graduate.

The United States Air Force

CADETS RECEIVING COMMISSIONS IN THE UNITED STATES AIR FORCE RESERVE, JUNE 12, 1958

Walter Elwood Ackerlund Stuart Newman Mapes, Jr. * William Hugh Austin, Jr. Manuel Francis Medeiros, Jr. Frank John Bielsik William Joseph Moore J ack Warner Christensen Richard Werner Procunier ohn Alvin Decker, Jr. David Judson Rachofsky Ralph Stephen DeVoto Robert Max Schmidt Ernest Robert August Flemig Howard Simmons Schumacher John Carroll Frishett * Ramon Albert Suehrstedt Arthur Sidney Gelfand John Anthony Varela* William Stanley Griffin CharlesJoseph Henry Karl Thomas Ludwig

CADETS RECEIVING COMMISSIONS IN THE UNITED STATES AIR FORCE RESERVE UPON COMPLETION OF SUMMER TRAINING OR UPON GRADUATION IN SEPTEMBER

Dana Huestis John Lewis Kipp John William O'Brien, Jr. Earl Raymond Smiddy, Jr. Arthur Laurence Zimmet

*Distinguished Military Graduate.